Netizen

The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 1) (novel)
The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 1) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
The Protocol of Greatness (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Garden Of Last Debates (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

Yes https://t.co/5oMNvZhXwi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2025

Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement https://t.co/pe0mdlEJcu
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

Turned 41 today.
19 years in SF.
Call me “unc” and I’m passing on your startup for “timing, team, traction, and also vibes.”
— Hubert Thieblot (@hthieblot) December 8, 2025

Japan still does not get it. Trump was close to point blank telling Takaichi to shut up and not provoke China, yet she cannot backtrack or risk losing her PM position. Now she asked Japan Ambassador to seek more verbal support
Trump top priority now is to get China on his side,…
— David Lee (@DavidLe76335983) December 7, 2025

The war over Warner Bros. is raging now. On Friday, Netflix announced it agreed to buy Warner Bros. for $72B. The cable networks (CNN, HGTV, Food Network, etc.) would be split off, but the massive IP library would be going to Netflix. It would also consolidate two of the most…
— John Coogan (@johncoogan) December 8, 2025

The Convergence Age: Ten Forces Reshaping Humanity’s Future
Liquid Computing: The Future of Human-Tech Symbiosis
Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics
The Next Decade of Biotech: Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation AI And Robotics Break Capitalism
Musk’s Management
Corporate Culture/ Operating System: Greatness
CEO Functions

Made a plan 3 months ago.

Changed it 10 times since.

Not exaggerating - actually 10 times.

We're in year 3 of the AI paradigm shift.

Plans don't hold.

The plan I made today? 'AI-proof.'

Until Gemini-4.

Then back to the drawing board.

Speed beats strategy now.
— George Pu (@TheGeorgePu) December 8, 2025

The pull of AI is pushing companies to grow faster than ever, but a lot of that growth is happening with negative contribution margins. Companies like Cursor are effectively selling dollars for 75 cents to take the market.

We have seen this movie. The 15-minute delivery boom was…
— Hadley Harris (@Hadley) December 8, 2025

Marketing gets you to $5M.

Product gets you to $100M.

I spent 10 years being a "marketing guy" with an average product.

Hit a ceiling every time.

With SamCart, we became obsessed with the product and now we’re at $300M.
— Brian Moran (@realbrianmoran) December 8, 2025

You are using the excuse of lack of passion to disguise your inability to handle difficulty.

Your passion only exists in the vague. even if you start a business around your “passion” 95% of what you do everyday will NOT be your passion.

You’ll just have brief moments where you…
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) December 8, 2025

This is what YC taught us about how to get your first paying users:

1) founders MUST do sales: You can't outsource early sales or hire a sales team immediately. You need to do it personally to understand the customer's problem because the product will initially be bad, only a…
— Chris Pisarski (@chrispisarski) December 8, 2025

Oh, wow, I did not know. We have met. At a NYC event. You should write an autobiography. Wanna hire me as a ghostwriter?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

i asked my smartest friends what's underhyped vs. overhyped in ai right now....

smart friend 1:
under: ephemeral ui
over: chat interface

smart friend 2:
under: agents, anything on the model layer
over: applications of ai

smart friend 3:
under: agents/language models
over:…
— Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) December 8, 2025

After 5 years in SF, I’ve realized there’s a pretty consistent founder cycle:

Move to SF -> grind and go to as many events to meet as many people in the first 6 months -> lock in and go into hermit mode -> reemerge at Series A or quietly shut down the company & become a…
— Jonathan Chang (@thechangj) December 8, 2025

The metaphor is harder to grasp the P/M fit itself.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

This is not AI. There was no editing, photoshopping, none of that. Enjoy! @a16z @pmarca @BenHorowitz https://t.co/cPUvNiMMkw pic.twitter.com/f1TADNrdTU
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

Interesting https://t.co/yuTy9Yr3xw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2025

Liquid Computing: The Future of Human-Tech Symbiosis https://t.co/VDimUsoJjd
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

I've suffered professionally & personally for writing about what I saw firsthand in Tibet & Xinjiang across 3 visits to each province

I've had speaking gigs cancelled the last minute due to protests, have been banned from media outlets like Bloomberg

I think but can't prove my…
— Shaun Rein (@shaunrein) December 8, 2025

Well, what did you see there?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

A message from Dr. Karp:

"The neurally divergent (like myself) will disproportionately shape America's future. We see past performative ideologies and perceive beauty in the world that still exists — which technology and art can expose.

The current LLM tech landscape is biased… https://t.co/vQhIrhrZ42
— Palantir (@PalantirTech) December 7, 2025

Try LinkedIn, maybe?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

There are largely two types of academics: A and B. Their worlds are so different, so insular they don't even know the other type exists.

Type A:

> Comes from a middle, upper-middle class family
> Well-educated parents (with advanced degrees including PhDs)
> Parents map out…
— Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@MushtaqBilalPhD) December 8, 2025

I was Zapier’s first customer. How they sold me should be taught in every business school.

2011, I had the first paid subscription podcast and I wanted to send handwritten thank-you notes to buyers. But getting their addresses out of PayPal was a pain in the butt.

So I went to… pic.twitter.com/jzvqMhvBCh
— Andrew Warner (@AndrewWarner) December 8, 2025

Great story. This could be a book.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

Investors before Elon tweets about an idea: “This is a science project, how will you make money?”

Investors after Elon tweets about an idea: “This is a huge market, how do you expect to compete with Elon?”
— Joe Morrison (@mouthofmorrison) December 8, 2025

FSD just saved me $400 and a trip to the tow yard this morning!

Last night there was no parking anywhere in our apartment complex, so we risked the 7AM loading zone. Wife: “they won’t tow on a Sunday.”

7:15 AM: having breakfast and notice a security guard taking pics of our…
— Tesladvisor (@Tesladvisor) December 7, 2025

JUST IN: Google to launch ads on Gemini
— Kalshi (@Kalshi) December 8, 2025

There's a truism in business: the faster you delight customers, the happier they are.

Whole business models were created around this idea.

A thread on the most critical metric in product, Time To Value: pic.twitter.com/bk42HhqJfT
— Grant Lee (@thisisgrantlee) December 8, 2025

I'd like to do marketing for you.
Digital Marketing Minimum https://t.co/hki7izgnzZ
Marketing Principles Plus AI https://t.co/UKWWipfmwK
The AI Marketing Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Content, Creativity, and Customer Engagement https://t.co/EGSKPBJdAc
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

I'd like to do marketing for you.
Digital Marketing Minimum https://t.co/hki7izgVpx
Marketing Principles Plus AI https://t.co/UKWWipfUmi
The AI Marketing Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Content, Creativity, and Customer Engagement https://t.co/EGSKPBJLpK
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

Watching my 9-year old code on top of Claude makes it clear that he is using a new programming language.

It has a weird input structure. He draws diagrams (or app states / flows) and then reasons about it.

He then iterates on it before making new diagrams.

It’s a multi-modal…
— Aditya Agarwal (@adityaag) December 8, 2025

My grandfather died at the age of 38 of heart disease. My great grandfather died of the same at 62.

Thankfully, my dad is still alive at 66 probably because he takes a statin.

I've avoided statins because I was convinced I could simply work around these genes by running…
— Zach Klein (@zachklein) December 8, 2025

"crypto has lost its way by becoming a global casino"

my man:

>you bought a ponzi scheme called bitcoin in 2014 hoping the price would go up
>you were the first to bet on predictions in 2017
>you speculated on cartoon jpegs worth 100k in 2021
>you're excited for the stock…
— david phelps (@divine_economy) December 8, 2025

JD Vance claims home prices are too high because so many illegal aliens have been buying, driving up prices. Actually, they don’t buy houses, they help build them. Kicking them out will drive up construction costs. It’s the Fed, the FHA, and the GSEs that drove up housing prices.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) December 7, 2025

The American people understand what's at stake in Ukraine.

Any settlement of the war that hands over territory to Putin will set the stage for his next war of aggression - in Ukraine and beyond. https://t.co/NQDMiMH4bf
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) December 8, 2025

The reality is that the truth is costly, complicated and sometimes unpleasant – and so the world is flooded with simple, cheap and flattering fantasy. pic.twitter.com/0tlzFuIVgu
— Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) December 8, 2025

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:

"What do you think about xyz"?

There is no "you". Next time try:

"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"

The LLM can channel/simulate many…
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) December 7, 2025

BREAKING: The US Labor Department announces it has cancelled the October PPI inflation report.
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) December 8, 2025

🚨BREAKING: CHINA NOV. EXPORTS IN USD TERMS RISE 5.9% Y/Y; EST. +4.0%

Trump’s Tariffs have done NOTHING to stop China.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) December 8, 2025

The Western world is about to realize:

- We're heading for something akin to the Great Depression/Recession 2.0

- This is going to force companies to lay off a ton of people

- This will ALSO force companies to adopt automation en masse (historically, recessions accelerate tech…
— David Shapiro ⏩ (@DaveShapi) December 8, 2025

People with strong social ties have 50% higher odds of survival. Being isolated can be as harmful as smoking up to 15 cigarettes/day. And no, your “smoke break friend” does not cut it
— David Sinclair (@davidasinclair) December 8, 2025

30 states now REQUIRE a personal finance class to graduate from high school, up from just 9 in 2017!

Big wins for students in UT, VA, OH, TX, FL, GA, AL, IA, MS, NC & the 20 newest additions.

Financial literacy = freedom. Keep the momentum going, America! 💪🇺🇸…
— Michael Dell 🇺🇸 (@MichaelDell) December 8, 2025

80% of parents doubt their children will have better lives, a powerful indicator of confidence — or lack thereof — among younger adults, per wSJ
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 8, 2025

Big update on this soon. Excited to share.

LFG. https://t.co/pcksOPuW4X
— Alex Macdonald (@alexfmac) December 8, 2025

Saving (Great) Britain: The Phoenix Fellowship At the start of my career in 2012 I moved to Singapore. It felt like living in a utopian future. Everything worked. Trains on time with plenty of room. Streets clean. Polite and well-educated kids. Zero crime (people left their laptops on mall cafeteria tables to reserve their seat). ........... In the past 20 years the Singapore government has achieved a budget surplus in 75% of the fiscal years. Such competence in governance is extraordinarily rare. But it did not happen by accident. ..........

I returned to the UK in 2014 to start my first company. Fast forward 10 years and Singapore seems like a distant dream compared to the dystopia in the UK.

i've noticed something odd lately

a lot of people who used to pay for services like ghostwriting or design now think they can do it themselves with AI

so they fire those people

but in most cases they can't get anywhere close to the old quality

they nuke themselves without…
— Ole Lehmann (@itsolelehmann) December 7, 2025

A new study on "Where Discovery Happens" found that with basic research in the life sciences, Harvard contributes more than Canada & France combined. Boston, Cambridge, & Newton are just behind all of China—and well ahead of every other country in the world. Most of this is from…
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) December 8, 2025

This is crazy! A 4-month-old startup, Axiom, founded by @CarinaLHong solved 9/12 math problems in the Putnam, which is way harder than the IMO! https://t.co/5WUaVGVuiD
— Derya Unutmaz, MD (@DeryaTR_) December 8, 2025

google is ahead because gemini is built into software that billions of people already use every day

gmail, docs, drive, and google search with AI mode

plus tools like notebookLM, etc.

so yeah, benchmarks don't matter if nobody uses your product

that's the real code red for…
— Haider. (@slow_developer) December 8, 2025

My Tesla quickly dodged around a car swerving into my lane this morning on highway.

For that instant I peered into the driver seat of the offending car, only witnessing a clueless human looking soulless in front of the road, not realizing what she had done if I was not on Full…
— Yun-Ta Tsai (@yunta_tsai) December 8, 2025

I told a student that calculus is the math of the industrial revolution and discrete mathematics is the math of the data revolution. Then I thought it would be cool to post that so here we are
— Anthony Bonato (@Anthony_Bonato) December 8, 2025

That's precisely why these BEHAVIOR1K results excite me! It's going to be a challenging journey with a clear but worthy North Star for all of us!
— Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) December 7, 2025

There are only three reasons why people write exclusively in lowercase:

1. they want their writing to feel like a continuous stream of thought ... to flow more naturally, like a poem would, and make it easier for people to digest their ideas

(0.1% of people)

2. They're lazy,…
— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) December 8, 2025

What about all upper case? Like with Trump? House on fire? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

Immigrant mentality:

When you get opportunities, you work 10x harder.

Not because you're better.

Because you can't afford to fail.

- No safety net.
- No generational wealth.
- No fallback plan.

Just work.

That's the chip on my shoulder.
— George Pu (@TheGeorgePu) December 8, 2025

x is more than a party. It is a networking event. A lot of business gets done on X. Try DMs.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

best option: look out the window
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2025

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Monday, December 08, 2025

8: Amitabh Bachchan

I returned to the UK in 2014 to start my first company. Fast forward 10 years and Singapore seems like a distant dream compared to the dystopia in the UK.